Word: nylon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sharon, 12, and Bruce, 8, packed into the wilds of Lower Lipstick Lake, 250 miles north of San Francisco and less than four miles from the ranch house of Boyd's friend J. D. Proctor. With them they carried salt, an ax, five knives, 50 ft. of nylon rope, toothbrushes, a ball of twine and-for emergencies-a sealed rifle, a flashlight and a first...
...people who do not want Communist rule and would also "write off any faith in our support of Far Eastern countries" trying to maintain the ideals of the free world. "American policy," he felt, "has often helped Peking by hiding the bamboo curtain on the Chinese side with a nylon curtain on the American side...
When his postwar rayon market faded as low-priced nylon came out and consumer tastes shifted, he bought his way into cottons and nylon hosiery. From 1952 to 1958 Love bought 18 key companies-often for a mere fraction of their real values. Last week, eying a new market, he was close to closing a deal to buy a major maker of carpets...